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The Bonifay Telephone Company, organized in 1910, was equipped with a switchboard manned by an operator who knew most, if not all, of the firm's subscribers. The operator was usually a woman, and she knew what the users of the service often talked about since she could overhear their conversations. Calls were placed by calling the operator and providing a name or number, or both. The operator would complete the call by making a designated number of long or short rings, or a combination of both, on a party line. The Bonifay Telephone Company, capitalized at $5,000, started with only a few subscribers and after six years had only 131 in the combined business and residential categories. Albert Jernigan was the company's first president. J M McLauchlin was vice president and C A Prim the secretary-treasurer. W L Sessoms and D L Green jointed the officers as incorporators and directors. The alphabetical listing in the 1916 directory may be suggestive of the community's development up to that time:
The above was transcribed by Cathy Strickland Popp from the "West Florida Footprints", No 7, 1988, which was published by the West Florida Genealogical Society, Inc. |
